The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01

100000 or more bushels in the winter
wheat crop.
CANON FLEMING one of the preachers to
Queen Victoria, has just published book
of sermons One OF them is said to be
stolen from Talmage. The discovery creates
a sensation
A RIGID quarantine has been ordered
against the transport of cattle from certain
points in Illinois, Maryland and New York,
and the receipt of cattle or the hides thereof
from Scotland.
Mr.. O'BRIEN was received in Montreal
last Thursday with much enthusiasm. He
made brief reciprocal address from the
balcony of st. Lawrence hall. There was
no unpleasant disturbance.
FIRES in Brooklyn, N. Y, did damage to
the estimated extent of 100000. A cooper
age establishment, for the firing of which a
man has been arrested, tenement-houses
and other property were damaged.
THE national encampment at Washing
ton was not that remarkable success which
its promoters had wished Less than 900
troops altogether were present and the
crowds in attendance were not large.
A VESSEL arrived from Buenos Ayres re-
ports the inhabitants dying off like sheep of
the cholera. The disease is spreading like
wildfre. The bodies of the dead are Gre
mated in an open lot near the hospital.
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ing from a prayer-meeting near Leora, Mo-,
James L. Butler was struck by lightning
! and instantly killed and Robert Mccain
was parayzed and is in a critical condition.
Four companions were severely shocked.
THE New York legislature adjourned last
| Thursday. Governor Jones is sharply criti-
! cised for insisting on the clerk passing bills
! long after the time of adjournment. The
usual speeches and the resolutions of court
esy in the senate were omitted. The We'd
der liquor tax bill passed both houses
RUMoR says a requisition has been issued
| by the Arkansas courts for the arrest and
surrender of Kissane of California, who has
recently figured extensively in the papers
for burning the steamer Martha Washing
ton " thirty years ago. The trial will not
be for crime but to recover on forfeited
bail bond.
IT is reported that Professor Klein, the
astronomer at Hartford, KY, sighted tn,
temperance of the Star of Bethlehem the
oath. 1t is quite brilliant, and is now in the
northwestern heavens. This star makes its
appearance about every three hundred
years, and astronomers everywhere have
been looking for it some time.
Mrs. THERESA NJ FISHER of Brooklyn
\. Y, who had always had great dread o
thunder and lightning, became so frightened
during Thursdays storm that she fled t.
her room, and, kneeling by the bed, began t.
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thunder was heard and the kneeling woman
was seen to shudder. Suddenly she rose t,
her feet, and, tottering toward a chair, fel
dead on the floor.
A NoRTH-BoUND sleeper left the rails thre
miles north of Addison junction Frida,
morning. Express, baggage and smoking
cars and one coach went off. The express
car went down a fifteen-foot embankmen
into the lake. Louis Thayer of Troy, tn,
messenger, was badly injured about tn
head, but it is thought not fatally. He wa
caught in the car and had to be choppe,
out. James Carbin, the baggageman, wa
also injured about the back. There wer,
forty passengers on the train, but non,
were hurt.
AT Oskaloosa Iowa, large crowd wit
messed a terrible accident by which William
Andrews, an amateur balloonist, wa
dashed to death. The balloon, about twent
by forty feet in size was inflated with no
air and rose rapidly to a height of seve
hundred feet Andrews climbed to trapezt
Suddenly it was learned that the balloo
had caught fire and Andrews was see
climbing upwards to its mouth and endeay
oring TO put out the fire. His efforts wer
unsuccessful and in two or three minute
the collapse came and Andrews came whir
ing down from the awful heighth and fe
upon the roof of a business block, his bod
being crushed beyond recognition.
New York city for many years broke OF
Friday in the car stables of the Belt Lin
horse railroad on the west side of Tent
avenue, between Fifty-third and Fifty-fourt
streets, which, with all their contents, wei
completely destroyed. Over 1,400 horst
persisted in the flames. One hundred thirt
cars and a large quantity of harnesses, fee
and other material were burned. Onl
forty horses were saved. Losses, as near
as they can be figured down upon a surve
foot up as follows: Railroad stable
S550,OO0; 1,4OO horses, $4,000; 175 car'
S1S0,000; harnesses, $751; 600; feed, S25, 90
loss of railroad company, 81 ,0S0, 600. JacC
News silk factory in Fifty-fourth stree
100000; five tenements in Fifty-fourt
street, 100000; losses of tenants, $1,000
losses ON Tenth avenue frame building
$4,000; Shantyville losses, $4,000 tot
: losses by fire, 81 ,345, 900.
THE Opera Comique in Paris was entirel
burned last week Monday night and mo
than 200 persons were killed or in ure
) The fire broke out during the first act
the opera q" Mignon." One of the win
caught fire from a gas-jet and the emit
A stage was Immediately enveloped in flame
1 The fire soon spread to the whole hous
+ I The iron curtain was lowered in front of Il
stage, and this prevented the fire fro
spreading Immediately 10 the auditoriu
+, and allowed the audience time to escap
!, Many persons sprang from the windows
the ground. Fourteen were instant
killed by the fall and forty-three we
: picked up more or less injured, some OF the
4, fatally and many of them very seriousl
The police authorities state that, so far
learned, sxty-eight persons lost their live
t and one hundred ten were burned and othe
: wise wounded. The remains are principal
3 those of ballet girls, chorsters and IN
chinists. The latest report is that at lea
one hundred lives were lost.